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Mikko Lehtinen

03-13-2013 04:13 AM

Thanks, david1941! Looking at that script inspired me to find out the answer. And the script just might help me with another problem, getting my Epson Perfection V30 to work with Slackware...

I googled up a very helpful article on lwn.net about manual driver binding and unbinding. This is how I found the bus address:

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Thanks for the info. I had no idea that Report button could be used for that. "Report" sounds scary, I only associated it with reporting spam or inappropriate behavior.

I also have the Thinkpad USB keyboard. My OS is Ubuntu 13.10. I tried the steps in your note but it didn't work. Although everything went without errors -- the sensitivity didn't change. Can you please help me?

Thanks!

aolney

12-30-2013 10:35 AM

I can try, but you're going to need to give me more details.

Let's try this: show me the command you are entering and the output to the screen for each step.

BTW I switched to Debian Sid sometime after this, so I no longer have the same system as before.

Through the years, I've used/tried many different methods to make this work. Right now, I'm using Debian sid, and it "just works." Unfortunately since I've tried so many things in the past, it's hard to tell what the last Ubuntu method worked for me.

Another thought -- I believe tpkbdctl worked great for me with Ubuntu 12.04, and I think I went straight from that to Debian sid (where it just works).

I took a quick look, and it seems the reason it "just works" is b/c the guy who wrote it is also in charge of this driver officially. So on my Debian sid it is installed here:

/etc/default/tpkbdctl

This is an actual file that you can edit to give the sensitivity parameter. If you tried to download it from github and it didn't work, I wonder if it's because your version of Ubuntu is sufficiently advanced that it actually has the driver built in, but the setting is stupid. Try looking for /etc/default/tpkbdctl and changing the sensitivity to the max. This is what mine looks like: